Eleggua Remixes by Daymé Arocena
Following in the wake of Daymé Arocena’s much-lauded Cuban opus Cubafonía, released on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood imprint last year, the Havana-based artist announces a new bumper-pack of mixes. Reimagining album track ‘Eleggua’, the original is an ode to Santería’s god of the crossroads, combining sacred Afro-Cuban rhythms with horns-driven, steady grooving jazz. These new mixes arrive as the 24-year-old singer and bandleader is set to embark on a run of dates in the USA.
Hyperdub- and True Panther-affiliated Ossie delivers a straight up club flip (with vocal and dub mixes), beefing up the rhythm section and tilting the Afro-Cuban rhythm in a UK funky direction. Following their recent LP collaborating with Cuban artist Ache Meyi, Soundspecies have put a bruk-styled spin on things, swirling rhodes and synth around Daymé’s vocals. Finally, Highlife and Huntleys + Palmers-affiliated Esa takes the most esoteric angle – a slow-build, synths-and-bleeps chugger, Daymé’s distinctive exaltations are the track’s driving force.
Tracklist
| 1. | Eleggua (Soundspecies Remix) | 5:47 |
| 2. | Eleggua (Esa & Narchbeats Kwaai Mix) | 5:03 |
| 3. | Eleggua (Ossie Remix) | 7:41 |
| 4. | Eleggua (Ossie Remix - Instrumental) | 5:42 |
| 5. | Eleggua | 3:08 |
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Relying on instinct and intuition is how Arocena has managed her career since she burst in the international scene with Nueva Era, her prodigious debut album, in 2015. Now, she has fully reinvented her sound with Al-Kemi (Brownswood Recordings), a revolutionary – and transformative – fusion of neo soul singing, Afro-Caribbean beats and slick new millennium pop.